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Robert J. Van Houten for their paper, "Theoretical and Experi- mental Propeller-Induced Hull

Pressures Arising from Intermit- tent Blade Cavitation." This prize is given to the author or authors of the best paper contributed to the

Transactions of the Society at its

Annual Meeting the preceeding year.

The best paper delivered before a Section of the Society gets the

Vice Admiral E.L. Cochrane

Award. This went to Watt D. Bur- ton Jr., for his paper, "A Survey of Marine Steam Propulsion Plants for Commercial Ships in the 1980s," delivered at the Hampton Roads

Section on April 14, 1983.

The Graduate Paper Honor Prize for 1983 was awarded to Jona- than J. Shields for his paper, "Containership Stowage: A Com- puter-Aided Pre-planning System," presented at the April 14, 1983 meeting of the Northern Califor- nia Section.

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SNAME president C. Larry French addressing the President's Luncheon.

The Undergraduate Paper Honor

Prize for 1983 was awarded to Ta- mara S. Upham for her paper, "Analysis of Japanese Ship Con- tract Price Data from 1975 to 1979," given before the Great

Lakes/Great Rivers Section on

January 21, 1983.

The Graduate Paper Award was given to George Triantafyllou for his paper, "Behavior of Elastic

Membranes in a Current for Ap- plications in Uranium Extraction," presented on January 27, 1983 at the New England Section.

Hendrik F. Van Hemmen re- ceived the Undergraduate Paper

Award for his paper, "The Mono- form Slip Concept: Design Princi- ples and Preliminary Performance

Characteristics," delivered at the

Chesapeake Section on May 25, 1982.

A Certificate of Appreciation was given to Monroe D. Macpherson for his outstanding service as chairman of the Sections Commit- tee from 1970 to 1982, and the So- ciety's most immediate past presi- dent, John J. Nachtsheim, received a Presidential Certificate of Appreciation. The President's

Luncheon awards ceremony con- cluded with the presentation (in absentia) of Golden Award 50-Year

Membership Certificates to Capt.

Oscar Stiegler, USN (Ret.), and

Edgar Svikis.

The President's Address

In his annual address delivered at the President's Luncheon, Mr.

French gave some observations on National Defense and the changing views our government has had on what is required as a government-funded national de- fense program. He also proposed a program that he thinks would im- prove our national defense capa- bilities, aid our maritime and "smokestack" industries, and im- prove the tax base.

To begin with, Mr. French of- fered a different view of what na- tional defense is: "The first con- cept most people have of national defense is the armed forces. We have become used to thinking of the three branches of our national defense—Army, Navy, and Air 22 Write 595 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News